Apache Toolbox provides a means to easily compile
Apache (IPv4/6) SSL, PHP(v3/v4), MySQL, Jakarta, a
large number of modules (61 3rd party modules and
36 default Apache modules, static or as DSOs), and
GD libraries with PNG+JPEG+Freetype2+zlib support.
It is fully customizable and menu-driven.
Everything is compiled from source, and wget is
used to download any missing modules. It can also
check for RPMs that might cause problems and
create an RPM with your selections.

CheckInstall keeps track of all files installed by
a "make install" or equivalent, creates a
Slackware, RPM, or Debian package with those
files, and adds it to the installed packages
database, allowing for easy package removal or
distribution.

FAI (fully automatic installation) is a non-interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating system on a group of PCs or a Linux cluster. After installation, the systems are fully configured and ready to run. It is a scalable method for performing unattended installation and updating. Changes to the configuration files of the operating system are made by cfengine, shell, and Perl scripts.

The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.

gBootRoot makes the construction and development of distributions fun and simple with its Root Methods (Yard) and user-mode-linux test bed. Finish the product with a Boot Method (2-disk compression supported). Normal (non-root) users can make root filesystems and boot disks. It includes the make_debian script to create a testable user-mode-linux base Debian system, add-ons to enhance methods, and an MTD Emulator useful for running distributions made with the jffs/jffs2 filesystem.

gitty-gitty, the (general | GNU) template generation tools, are a set of scripts for creating a whole set of sources which may already be compiled and installed using the GNU development tools. Think of gtgt as a program which is able to create an already compilable, very sophisticated "hello world" program, written in C or C++ and constituted by a main program, two internal modules (classes), and one static and one shared library, and this complex "Hello World" is already fully embedded into the GNU autoconf/automake development environment. By using gitty-gitty, you will get a template of sources for the main cases you might meet, and which you can also use as examples for automake, autoconf, etc.

GNU Parted is a package for creating, destroying,
resizing, checking, and copying partitions and the
file systems on them. This is useful for creating
space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk
usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk
imaging. It contains a library, libparted, and a
command-line frontend, parted, which also serves
as a sample implementation and script backend.